exiſts, ſavin
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on can vout a ney t0 ca ing hatever the tax 3.
ntereſls as the ſobject drain- lfe.— ; and reed to ſame nly of ng of dublle. ſers of om we ject in hing to of the SWEI,
verdicts aſt been is court ht expe- that the through ir ſeveral d outfal!, copſiſtent dewers.“ dens of re prelcnt,
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1 47 17 Is woRKINGAT THE WRoONG END; and is neither more nor leſs than adhering to that erroneous plan, which has been attended with ſuch very ruinous conſequences, varying only the mode of execution. It is a very extraordinary circumſtance, that although in almoſt every publication relating to this buſineſs, there is to be found ſome paſſage, vhich goes pointedly and directly to approve the principle of what is now aiming to be done. viz. ⁶⁴The *« keebing tbe water togetber in one firm compaar body, inſtead of Falfering it to dividle and diſperſe 8* it ſelf inc ↄa great varicty of ineffectual fireams,”“ no man, for a long ſeries of years, attempted to apply this fure an d certain re medy, to that particular part where, and where only, common reaſon muſt tell any one, it would have any good operation, namely, the outfall, but to ſome place at an imm men ſe it iſtance from it. Coul this wollioſe be owing to a want of Deneta tion
tion e5 Berſone, f he effect of whofe Pedn we have ſee en in theie our modern 8 2 Mr. Kinderley was the firſt man, who had penetration to diſcover the true cauſe of the e xiſting evils, or courage to break that ſpell of enchantment, by which all others Der⸗ held; yet when his ſcheme for improving the drainage below Wiſbech, was brought forward, Badſlade, who rook upon him to compile a Hi iſtory of the ens, aſherteg,*e that, n 1 f being of ſervice to a he North Level, it would render that Level in a port time irrelievable at all.“ It were eaſy to prove, if neceſſary, that this man was as falſe an hiſtori⸗ an, as he has tur Mac out to be a pro- phet, and yet his co mpilation is the main pillar on which ſome comprehenfive ſcheme is to be raiſed; and we are expected to bury in oblivion, all that has been done under our own noſes, by means entirely di fferent to any he has recommended. 1 take leave of the ſubject, by de-
claring my Jeun bin ion as follows, viz. Vain will be all embankments, without attention to the outfa II, and neceſſary, in a great meaſure, if the outfall is made good in the firſt in- ſtance; for if you lover che water at the out fall, you lower it ii evitably in the main river Lenemüoieenine with that Sllall Now every body, aenſateä with the country, knows the ſoil is of ſuch a nature, that by the friction of the water, and the uſe of ſpade machines, it may be ground to almoft any depth. A bank then is byt his operation alread) form ed 10 yO hands, by lowering the water below the furface of the whole Suntry„ and infinitel ly ſt neger than any that can poſſibly be conſtructed by art, to reſiſt water that flows above its lrodee level.
The conſequence of lowering the water in the main river, is the lowering it likewiſe in all the fobordinate rivers falling into it, and the navigation of theſe will be preſerved as he now are by fluices, and ee bec ds of them ground down to a level with the! bottoms of thoſe fluices, telorting in all caſes to manual labour where the ſoil happens to be too ſtrong to yield to the friction of the üheie machine. This and this only is thie rational way to obtain efficient banks; and the country will not ſurely for ever p. erſaſt in the gigantic ſcheme of heaping, as it were, moun a77 u Don mountain, without obtaini& y thing like ſecuri ity for that 2 obe ty eot, 5 75 the object at ſtate; for be it remembered, tha t afir all that can be done in ihe: rauſing 9 banks, our
money is wν/ 527; and it is on the out fall, AND THE OUTFALLONLY, that we muſt at laſt depen d for ſecurit 1).